Now, from the point of view of later law this meant that the two freeholds were created each by a special feoffment.
On the other hand, the freeholdsseem scattered at random without any definite plan of arrangement, parcelled up into unequal portions, and subjected to entirely different duties.
However this may be, the trifling duties imposed on freeholds lead to the inference that the agreement between lord and tenant had been made on the basis of the latter's independent right, and not on that of the lord's will and power.
Freeholds are declared to be a necessary element, and should they all escheat, the manor would be only a reputed one[842].
On the contrary, it is a wise policy to afford facilities to our citizens to become the owners at low and moderate rates of freeholds of their own instead of being the tenants and dependents of others.
No doubt, as trade grew in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries successful tradesmen bought smallfreeholds in the country and swelled the numbers of yeomen.
But it was only discovered by many members after the Act had become law that a run might mean a block of 25 square miles, and that a lessee with a dozen blocks could secure strategic freeholds in as many different parts of his holding.
The homesteads are capable of being converted into freeholds after five years and up to ten years for a total price of 2s.
We find tiny freeholds and large tenant farms side by side.
Adjoining such large holdings are smallfreeholds farmed by their peasant owners--dairy farms of a few acres, market-gardens of one or two, and so on.
Had the Old Squire spared the small freeholds they would have come in as purchasers and would have increased their number during the later years when the principal landlord, his son, was gradually falling into poverty and drink.
Prompt measures were now taken by the Hungarians to restore the old status of the country, and laws were made which conferred upon the peasantsfreeholds of land and all other reforms for which they had for so long been agitating.
Would that one could buy City freeholds at the same rate now!
All his other freeholds and houses in Beckenham, Lewisham and Battersea, his lands at Dartford and his manor of Sutton at Hone and Wilmington to his son William.
His lordship proposed to allow the owner of copyholds and customary freeholds to dispose of them by will, which could not now be done.
If the proposition succeeded, the consequence would be that many voters possessing freeholds in boroughs, which, as the bill now stood, would enable them to vote for counties, would be disfranchised.
With regard to their freeholds in London, they may exclude all persons from entering them, they may desert them themselves, or they may let them fall to ruin.
They will assuredly be told by Parliament, that they may not exercise the same arbitrary authority over the chief seats of Indian commerce, which they may over their freeholds in London.
A right to all the ports and territories in India, possessed by the Company, of the same kind and extent as the right by which they hold their freeholds in London.
That no "landlord's rent" or interest in respect of freeholds would be payable other than the small amount which has been already provided for in estimating net revenue.
Indeed, these counterfeitfreeholds had been manufactured recklessly throughout Ireland for the very purpose of extending landlord influence.
While the political motive for multiplying smallfreeholds had ceased, the motives for multiplying small tenancies were as strong as ever, and were felt by landlords no less than by cottiers.
Hence it becomes necessary to consider what would be the political value of the Freeholds of Westmoreland, if the system of Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage (countenanced by Mr. Brougham) should be acted upon.
Both president and professors have freeholds in their offices; subject only to be removed by the trustees, as their legal visitors, for good cause.
Small freeholds for the emancipated can be cut out of the plantations of rebels, or out of the public lands of each State--lands forfeited by the rebellion.
The question of emancipation is not clear even in the heads of the leading emancipationists; not one thinks to give freeholds to the emancipated.
He lived in a tiny villa-cottage with his bed-ridden, cheerful wife, and lent small sums on mortgage of approved freeholds at 5 per cent.
By virtue of this Marriage the Prince is Heir to the Count of Hanau's Estate in Alsace, and to all his Freeholds in general, which will be a very rich Succession.
The Margrave marry'd a Princess of Courland, Heiress to theFreeholds of her Uncle Duke Ferdinand, the last of her Family.
Gradual concentration of freeholds, or transformation of the small freeholds into fiefs, feuds, tenures, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "freeholds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
